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Creation date : 06/12/2004 @ 04:00 Last update : 06/12/2004 @ 04:00

Why did you develop GuppY?

Two main reasons lead me to develop GuppY. I wanted a small portal for my own personal web site (aldweb Site) that would allow:

- a native bilingual management of the content, the user only having to choose his language when getting on the site. Only Minicontent answered to this constraint... but it required to install a MySQL database and few functionalities were available apart from the standard CMS (Contact Management System).

- a simple script that would not require a database. I then looked at Portix and Phortail. The first one, Portix, is in great development but it is starting to become quite complex and, last news, it now comes with a user management which I did not want of. The second one, Phortail, was much more simple, even too basic, but it was healthy. Therefore, it was a source of inspiration for my own development of GuppY.

So, at the end, I decided myself to write my own script, with the idea of sharing it with everybody that would be interested, so I tried to get it as "user friendly" as I could. And this is how GuppY was born

Creation date : 06/12/2004 @ 04:00 Last update : 06/12/2004 @ 04:00

What's the relationship between GuppY, Phortail, Portix and Minicontent?

From all the little web portals that I could find while looking for the perfect web portal, Phortail is by far the one that had the user interface that I prefered. Furthermore, the concept and architecture of Phortail were good. But the PHP script of Phortail needed a serious remastering.

So, Phortail was for sure a source of inspiration for GuppY, but you have to know that the PHP coding of GuppY was written at 100% "from scratch" to be more efficient, more flexible and more secure.

To sum up, here are the inspiration sources on GuppY of the 3 tools Phortail, Portix and Minicontent:- Phortail : the general concept (with the non use of an external database) and the general look & feel- Portix : the concept of not using an external database, the quotations... and the willing of doing things in an easier way...- Minicontent : the bilingual capability and the categories in the papers menu